Hobovertising: 11 Great Homeless Solicitations & Hobo Signs

Homelessness is not a laughing matter. On the streets of every city and town in America, we find those who are much less fortunate than we are. Some are mentally disabled, and others have suffered immense financial hardships. With that in mind, there are a select few homeless who have a point to advertise themselves in creative and hysterical ways. These homeless are worth checking out, as they somehow find a way to remain chipper and candid, even in the worst of life conditions.

The Honest Hobo

Kicking off the list is this homeless man who really understands city residents! Every city in America is home to countless homeless people who lie about what they need money for. Still others lie about being homeless altogether and are just faking it! Surely, the majority of people have learned to tune out your standard beggar, rationalizing that he will probably use the money for booze, drugs or prostitutes. This man wastes nobody’s time by coming clean with his intentions right from the start! Want to contribute to his many vices? Feel free!

The Starving Coder

This homeless man is addressing a problem that plagues the minds of start-up owners around the world: how to get effective labor for cheap without outsourcing! Luckily, this hobo will program your entire website’s HTML layout for three hots and a cot! Business owners are always in hot water for outsourcing, why not give a down and out American entrepreneur a shot and kill two birds with one stone! Address the American job crisis while simultaneously helping the unfortunate! It’s a win-win!

The Vengeful Bum

Sometimes it can be hard to muster up the strength required to crack open your wallet and help the less fortunate. However, who can deny this man the vengeance he seeks against those that brought harm to his family! Ninjas are a sneaky bunch, and perhaps it time someone does something about it! Think he’s bluffing? Why not offer to teach him kung-fu and see what kind of response you get!

The Politically Incorrect Bum

This man provides a valuable service to the corporate employer! After a long day of pointless meetings, redundant reminders from buzzword spewing upper-management, and lackluster performance from those you oversee, your head is likely stewing with a hundred and one things you’d like to scream at all those around you! This man provides a cathartic outlet for displaced aggression, and who can argue with his price! Just picture your boss, employees, or conniving ex-girlfriend’s head on his shoulders and let the profanities fly!

The Hero-in-the-Making Bum

Here’s a man you can’t help but assist! A kidnapped wife and less than a dollar away from demanded ransom! Imagine coming home from a completely normal day to find your wife missing, and a note demanding ransom worth just 98 cents more than your bank account has! I bet he’s regretting that coffee he bought on the drive home! The story truly is tragic, and perhaps the culprits were the same ninjas who killed number three’s family! Hopefully you helped the man out; he could be out defeating those troublesome ninjas now…

The Interstellar Bum

The truth is out there, and this man won’t hide it any longer… or should I say, this alien! Stuck in a strange world, light years from home, this poor extraterrestrial has cleverly disguised himself as a human in order to procure that green stuff we call money so that he can fix his space ship! Unfortunate as it may be, this particular species is intelligent enough to create a space ship capable of traveling to Earth, but cannot figure out how to fix it without asking people for money. Peculiar indeed!

“That 70’s Bum”

Hippies used to stick together in the 60s and 70s. If someone had the “goods”, EVERYONE had the “goods!” We live in a changing world however, and these guys apparently refuse to get with the times. Hoping for a sympathizer who perhaps attended the same Woodstock and Burning Man festivals in their heyday, these men sit and proudly wave their piece signs for all to see! Sit down and offer them a hit or two, you may just make friends for life!

The Vicarious Bum

Whoever said the homeless contribute nothing to society! This man is providing a service we all need, cussing out our damn mother-in-laws! Dinner is never good enough, you don’t raise your kids right and your take on religion is all wrong! You hear this and more far too often, yet you always bite your tongue, waiting for the day you might get to say what you REALLY think of her photo albums! Well wait no longer because this man is ready and willing to unload on the beast for a fee!

The Promiscuous Bum

Even among the homeless, political satire thrives! Clearly taking a shot at the state of affairs Governor Spitzer apparently put this man into, he hopes to gain your spare change for a laugh! One has to wonder though, where did he get such a figure from? $4,300 seems an awfully specific amount to strive for! He must have some specific purchase in mind, if we only we knew what it could be!

The Entrepreneurial Bum

This man is a true homeless trailblazer! For starters, the man sports a new and original way to advertise his homelessness, around his head! Now if that doesn’t get your attention as you stroll past, nothing will! Secondly, his supposed service is quite unique: Kissing lessons by the house! His rates are reasonable, $25.00/hr without teeth, and only a $1.50/hr with teeth! Look closely and you’ll see that this man apparently accepts Visa and Mastercard as well!

The Bionic Bum

This homeless man represents a snapshot of the current American film industry. In his day, he was the star of the show! As a space traveling, evil battling cyborg, he was awed by audiences across the country and was offered contracts from here to Hollywood. Times have changed, and today 3-D modeling programs have rendered this talented borg broke!

These 11 bums prove that there can indeed be beauty (and comedy) in struggle.

Can you name the 10 persuasion different weapons used in these ad copy examples?

stoffisFebruary 8th, 2009 at 2:57 am

Dude’s a cylon, not a borg

RonFebruary 8th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

Man you gotta be a pretty big nerd to know the difference between a cylon and a cyborg…

MichelleFebruary 9th, 2009 at 6:16 am

Spitzer paid $4300 for one night with a girl. I think the guy is making a statement about one of the HUGE gaps between rich and poor…

dewfishFebruary 9th, 2009 at 6:59 am

Chris Rock was right, the real homeless are too hungry to be witty….

Mike JorgensenFebruary 11th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Be sure not to give the kissing instructor any viruses o.k.!!!

DradloffioFebruary 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

yeah, its a cylon, which also is the bad guy in the series, not the “evil battling cyborg” you call him

DonFebruary 15th, 2009 at 2:17 am

Please don’t give any of these guys any money, if you do you will miss out on future witticisms that may be hilariously coming.

Love the beer, pot and hookers one! Love a homeless person who knows what’s important in life.

Frederick Maurice S. LimFebruary 16th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

its so funny, wonderful pictures. great!

James MartinFebruary 18th, 2009 at 7:23 am

Yes, isn’t fun to make fun of homeless people? You feel so much more superior. “I may be a jerk but at least I ain’t them” you think. Lovely world.

JingFebruary 19th, 2009 at 3:56 am

lol yeh dont mix Cylons with the Borgs haha

IvanskiFebruary 19th, 2009 at 6:40 am

hahah, great people

CyclonusFebruary 19th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Love the Cyclon one.

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